Analysis
Osavul raised a $10 million Series A led by 33N Ventures, with Balnord and G+D Ventures joining and existing investor 42CAP returning, according to Pulse 2.0. The round brings the company's total funding to roughly 12 million euros.
Co-founded by CEO Dmytro Plieshakov and Chief Business Development Officer Dmytro Bilash, Osavul builds an AI-powered hybrid risk-intelligence platform that identifies hostile intent across information, cyber and physical domains, combining open and privileged data with proprietary intelligence the team has gathered from years of analyzing hostile campaigns. Assessments are evidence-traced and analyst-reviewed, and the platform can run entirely on-premise within sovereign infrastructure so sensitive customer data never leaves their own systems. The company was developed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine and has spent four years embedded with defense, cyber and information-security units.
“The company was developed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine and has spent four years embedded with defense, cyber and information-security units.”
That origin has translated into unusually formal validation for a Series A company: Osavul is one of three technology companies supporting NATO's Information Environment Assessment Capability. Customers now span more than 10 countries, including the UK, Germany, Poland, the Nordic countries, the US and parts of Asia-Pacific, and the company says its total contract value grew fourfold in 2025, with enterprise traction expanding beyond defense into energy, transportation and financial services.
The new capital is earmarked for deeper AI capabilities, expanding the commercial organization, and entering additional markets and industries, while the company continues serving government and defense customers and extends its technology toward critical infrastructure and commercial clients.
Osavul competes less with other AI startups than with the incumbent human-analyst teams inside intelligence agencies and large security contractors, where threat assessments have traditionally been compiled manually from classified and open-source feeds over days rather than in near real time. Larger defense-tech platforms like Anduril and Palantir touch adjacent problems -- autonomous systems and data fusion for military customers -- but neither markets a dedicated hostile-intent-detection product the way Osavul does, which is part of why a four-year-old company with modest total funding was able to land a NATO-level credential before raising a large round. At $10 million, this Series A is small by the standards of US-based AI funding, but Osavul's capital efficiency -- four years of runway on roughly 12 million euros total, with contract value already compounding -- is the more interesting number for investors weighing it against flashier, better-funded rivals in the broader security and defense-tech category.